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These "Whole Brain Emulation" discussions are surreal for me. I think someone needs to put forward the best case they can find that human brain emulations have much of a chance of coming before engineered machine intelligence.
The efforts in that direction I have witnessed so far seem feeble and difficult to take seriously - while the case that engineered machine intelligence will come first seems very powerful to me.
Without such a case, why spend so much time and energy on a discussion of what-if?
Personally I don't have a strong opinion on which will come first, both seem entirely plausible to me.
We have a much better idea how difficult WBE is than how difficult engineering a human level machine intelligence is. We don't even know for sure whether the latter is even possible for us (other than by pure trial and error).
There is a reasonably obvious path form where we are to WBE, while we aren't even sure how to go about learning how to engineer an intelligence, it's entirely possible that "start with studying WBEs in detail" is the best possible way.
There are currently a lot more people studying things that are required for WBE than there are people studying AGI, it's difficult to tell which other fields of study would benefit AGI more strongly than WBE.